Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South / Catherine Kerrison.

Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South / Catherine Kerrison.

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In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern wome...

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Online Access:Electronic book from JSTOR
Main Author: Kerrison, Catherine, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Women > Southern States > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Women > Books and reading > Southern States > History > 18th century.
Women authors, American > Southern States > History > 18th century.
Women and literature > Southern States > History > 18th century.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Toward an Intellectual History of Early Southern Women
  • 2. "The Truest Kind of Breeding": Prescriptive Literature in the Early South
  • 3. Religion, Voice, and Authority
  • 4. Reading Novels in the South
  • 5. Reading, Race, and Writing
  • Conclusion: The Enduring Problem of Female Authorship and Authority
  • Postscript
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index.

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